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how comment spam is ruining forums

By Mark Newman - I’m tired of comment crap and I know the providers of fine sites like RecruitingBlogs worry about the editorial quality of their publication. Most of all, it’s getting to the point of being outrageous. It seems that every post that references a company gets hit with comment crap. Even more, a good friend of mine was recently ripped apart by a sender for not following their wishes. The reaction from the sender was full of vitriol and accusations that truly disgusted me (remember – emails can be forwarded). This industry already has a problem with the “cool kid hall” (thankfully we got rid of most of the blog popularity contests), but we seem to just be making it worse. It seems like if you don’t suck up to the popular kids, you may have just gotten yourself uninvited to the party.

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